Subject: The Beach Boys

• John Stamos and the Beach Boys Jam for Fashion

  July 12, 2007

• Art Basel Week: Hex Dispensers, Brutal Knights, Reigning Sound, Dec. 5

  Reigning Sound The party continues at the Kill Your Idols space on Friday, December 5, first with Hex Dispensers, an Austin quartet who overdosed on the Ramones, but not so much the Beach Boys (it's a good thing ). Brutal Knights hail from the much colder climes of Toronto, and title their fun ditties things like "Grow Up Throw Up." Headlining is the southern-fried, garage-punk-and-roll foursome Reigning Sound, originally from Memphis but now based in Asheville, North Carolina. Free and ope

  November 25, 2008

• Random Album Review: Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

  Animal CollectiveMerriweather Post Pavilion(Domino)On Strawberry Jam in 2007, experimental noise-making weirdos Animal Collective glided on the outskirts of dreamy indie-pop. Fan fave "Peacebone" even flirted with a sunny melody that exposed a heart beneath all the usual digital flotsam. The band's ninth album, Merriweather Post Pavilion, is still frolicking in the clouds, skimming the surface of Beach Boys-style harmonies and contemporary psychedelia. But it's also a total mindfuck, a record s

  January 21, 2009

• Animal Collective Tunes In, Drops Out, Grows Up

  June 4, 2009

• Got Live If You Want It

  October 19, 1995

• Girl Talk Plays the Culture Room

  March 5, 2009

• Philly's Dr. Dog Brings Swirly Sunshine Sounds to Culture Room

  February 19, 2009

• The Queers

  September 11, 2008

• 18 Essential Songs of Summer

  The definitive sounds of encroaching melanoma.

  July 24, 2008

• Power Pop Rocks

  Rooney and Locksley snap and crackle at Revolution.

  June 26, 2008

• Vampire Weekend: Scary Name, Friendly Music

  June 5, 2008

• Caribou

  April 3, 2008

• Boxing Match

  Record companies get greedy with repackaging excess.

  January 17, 2008

• Tender Forever

  December 6, 2007

• Black Dice

  October 11, 2007

• The Leftovers

  May 31, 2007

• Velvet Gold Mine

  November 30, 2006

• Jed, Move Away from There!

  November 2, 2006

• Andy Partridge

  October 19, 2006

• The Vibrators

  October 5, 2006

• Grizzly Bear

  July 6, 2006

• BEST LOCAL POP BAND

  May 12, 2005

• New Pollution

  April 7, 2005

• The Thrills

  September 16, 2004

• Humbert

  August 19, 2004

• Dios

  April 22, 2004

• The Autumn Defense

  December 18, 2003

• The Shins

  October 23, 2003

• Royal's Screwups

  December 13, 2001

• Best Newsstand

  May 17, 2001

• Brian Wilson

  November 16, 2000

• The Beach Boys

  October 19, 2000

• The Jayhawks

  August 17, 2000

• Limbo Land

  April 27, 2000

• Various Artists

  March 23, 2000

• Rotations

  July 30, 1998

• Rotations

  December 4, 1997

• Punk and Proud

  October 10, 1996

• Water, Water Everywhere

  February 22, 1996

• Rotations

  October 12, 1995

• Rotations

  September 21, 1995

• Twang-bar Kings

  December 29, 1994

• Swelter

  January 29, 1992

• Notes From the Soundboard: A Look Back at 1969

  The Beatles' Let It Be was a sign of the timesNotes from the Soundboard is a new column appearing every Wednesday on Crossfade, focused on pop music's history and ongoing evolution. Lee Zimmerman shares insights and observations on how music continues to connect with the weirdness of the world. 1969 was, looking back with the benefit of 40 years of hindsight, a year of paradox. It had its highs -- Woodstock, the Isle of Wight Festival, the landing of the first man on the moon, Led Zeppelin

  May 13, 2009

• Notes from the Soundboard: Famous Fathers and Sons

  via myspace.com/rufuswainwrightRufus Wainwright did his dad proudNotes from the Soundboard is a new column appearing weekly on Crossfade,  focused on pop music's history and ongoing evolution. Lee Zimmerman shares insights and observations on how music continues to connect with the weirdness of the world. Click here to read past installments."It's not time to make a change, Just sit down, take it slowly.You're still young, that's your fault, There's so much you have to go through..."-- Cat

  May 27, 2009

• Steve Miller Band to Play Hard Rock Live on November 17

  It seems that contempt for his radio-friendly '70s tunes such as "The Joker" and "Fly Like an Eagle" drove Steve Miller off the stage in '80s. He told Rolling Stone in 2008, "Bands like X were the big thing in L.A., and my work was being called unmitigated slop. I said to myself, 'I get it! I'm outta here! Stop kicking me, I'm leaving.' " He retreated from the spotlight for about 5 years, and reemerged when he saw bands like the Beach Boys enjoying a second chance on the road. Sure, the Steve Mi

  May 27, 2009

• Last Night: Animal Collective at Culture Room

  photo by Ian WitlenView New Times' full slideshow of the show here. Animal CollectiveWith Black DiceTuesday, June 9, 2009Culture Room, Ft. LauderdaleBetter Than: Eating Terry Riley's leftover mushrooms and listening to a Diplo mashup of the Beach Boys.The Review:"Harry Belafonte! Harry Belafonte!" That's what the girl next to me last night screamed in the few moments when Animal Collective's live sonic roar slipped into its quieter moments. Her implied comparison wasn't far off. Maybe there wasn

  June 10, 2009

• Sol Ruiz's Outlander CD Brings Tropical Folk Style Cuban Psychedelic Music

  Sol Ruiz's Oultander is a 6-song disc I got in a cardboard sleeve from producer Bobby Macintyre of Studio 71.He says: "Sol is the songwriter and she plays acoustic guitar. I played drums, produced, engineered, and mixed it. Jesse Jackson plays some Dobro slide guitar, and some cuatro. Lorenzo Corti, who's an Italian friend of mine, guitar player, is on there doing some ambient stuff. I brought Raffa Jo Harris in to do some background vocals. Joe Rehmer played upright bass on the whole record. S

  June 17, 2009

• Vivian Girls to Play Propaganda October 21

  Mexico City, by Daniel Araujo from their Myspace​Damn Son!  Vivian Girls are playing Propaganda up in Lake Worth in October.  I don't know if Steve is doing these shows or what, but this place is really coming into its own with this booking.  This band is pretty damn good and in my mind sounds like the glorious fusion of Beat Happening, Holly Golightly and the Beach Boys.  This band actually lives up to their hype of awesomeness.  The show isn't listed on their myspace

  August 20, 2009

• Subtropical Spin

  August 27, 2009